About Oracle (NYSE:ORCL)

Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, hosts, and supports application, platform, and infrastructure technologies for information technology (IT) environments worldwide. It provides services in three primary layers of the cloud: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. The company licenses its Oracle Database software, which enables storage, retrieval, and manipulation of data; and Oracle Fusion Middleware software to build, deploy, secure, access, and integrate business applications, as well as automate their business processes. It also provides software for mobile computing to address the development needs of businesses; Java, a software development language; and big data solutions. In addition, the company offers human capital and talent management, enterprise resource planning, customer experience and customer relationship management, procurement, project portfolio management, supply chain management, business analytics and enterprise performance management, and industry-specific application software, as well as financial management and governance, risk, and compliance applications. Further, it provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, management software, and hardware support products, as well as operating systems, and virtualization and other hardware-related software. Additionally, the company offers customers software license updates and product support contracts; database, middleware, and development software, as well as cloud-based platform and infrastructure; and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial software implementation and integration, application development and integration, security assessments, and ongoing software enhancements and upgrade, as well as customer support and education services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Frequently Asked Questions

What is Oracle's stock symbol?

Oracle trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ORCL."

How often does Oracle pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Oracle?

Oracle declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 19th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 17th will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, May 1st. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

How will Oracle's stock buyback program work?

Oracle announced that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Monday, February 5th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

How were Oracle's earnings last quarter?

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.83 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.11. The enterprise software provider earned $9.78 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.77 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 21.77% and a net margin of 9.25%. The firm's revenue was up 5.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.69 EPS. View Oracle's Earnings History.

When is Oracle's next earnings date?

What price target have analysts set for ORCL?

36 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Oracle's shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's share price to reach $56.5777 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

What are Wall Street analysts saying about Oracle stock?

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Oracle stock:

1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Oracle’s gross margin expansion is hurt by higher investments on IaaS platform. Moreover, management provided soft outlook for the cloud business, which will remain an overhang on the shares in the near term. Shares of the company have underperformed the industry in the past year. Further, estimates have remained stable lately ahead of the company’s Q4 earnings release. However, Oracle is benefiting from strong adoption of its cloud-based solutions. We believe that the company’s growing cloud market share will continue to drive top-line growth in the long haul. We note that partnerships with the likes of Accenture are helping the company rapidly expand its cloud-base clientele. Also, anticipated strong demand for the next-generation autonomous database supported by machine learning will boost competitive position against AWS. The company has positive record of earnings surprises in recent quarters." (5/22/2018)

2. Credit Suisse Group analysts commented, "We note the Zenedge acquisition presentation sizes the ‘cloud security market’ at $4.1bn in 2017, and growing exponentially to $12.7bn by 2022. IaaSpirations: Following Oracle’s announced data center expansion on Monday (followed by comments suggesting no change in IaaS strategy or CapEx intentions); we view this as additional evidence of a complete and competitive IaaS offering. All three major public cloud platforms offer similar web security functionality. We note Zenedge offers AWS specific WAF and DDoS products today and it will be interesting to see if these remain. We believe the world should remain multi-cloud for the foreseeable future and Oracle’s autonomous cloud a highly relevant part of that, especially for large enterprises." (2/18/2018)

3. Drexel Hamilton analysts commented, "We believe these reports are inaccurate and we would be buyers of Oracle on any weakness this afternoon." (1/2/2018)

Are investors shorting Oracle?

Oracle saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 33,753,230 shares, an increase of 12.1% from the April 13th total of 30,102,806 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 12,667,771 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold.

Has Oracle been receiving favorable news coverage?

News coverage about ORCL stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Oracle earned a news impact score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

How do I buy shares of Oracle?

Shares of ORCL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

What is Oracle's stock price today?

One share of ORCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.42.

How big of a company is Oracle?

Oracle has a market capitalization of $191.95 billion and generates $37.73 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $9.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.49 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 138,000 workers across the globe.

MarketBeat Community Rating for Oracle (ORCL)

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Analyst Ratings

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Price Target and Consensus Rating

MarketBeat calculates consensus analyst ratings for stocks using the most recent rating from each Wall Street analyst that has rated a stock within the last twelve months. Each analyst's rating is normalized to a standardized rating score of 1 (sell), 2 (hold), 3 (buy) or 4 (strong buy). Analyst consensus ratings scores are calculated using the mean average of the number of normalized sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings from Wall Street analysts. Each stock's consensus analyst rating is derived from its calculated consensus ratings score (0-1.5 = Sell, 1.5-2.5 = Hold, 2.5-3.5 = Buy, >3.5 = Strong Buy). MarketBeat's consensus price targets are a mean average of the most recent available price targets set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months. MarketBeat's consensus ratings and consensus price targets may differ from those calculated by other firms due to differences in methodology and available data.

37 Wall Street analysts have issued ratings and price targets for Oracle in the last 12 months. Their average twelve-month price target is $56.5777, suggesting that the stock has a possible upside of 21.78%. The high price target for ORCL is $65.00 and the low price target for ORCL is $46.00. There are currently 14 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus rating of "Buy."

Dividends

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Dividend Information

Oracle pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share, with a dividend yield of 1.64%. ORCL's most recent quarterly dividend payment was Tuesday, May 1. The company has grown its dividend for the last 6 consecutive years and is increasing its dividend by an average of 14.50% each year. Oracle pays out 30.52% of its earnings out as a dividend.